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Revelations of Divine Love

par Julian of Norwich · 92 parties · about 6 hours de lecture

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Julienne de Norwich était très malade, s'attendant à mourir, quand elle a eu une suite de visions vives du Christ souffrant sur la croix. Elle s'est rétablie, elle a réfléchi pendant des années à ce qu'elle avait vu, et elle a écrit ce livre sur un Dieu aimant qui nous garde en sécurité. Ses mots les plus célèbres sont simples : tout sera bien. L'édition de Grace Warrack garde la chaleur de son vieil anglais tout en le rendant lisible. C'est tranquille, doux, et profondément réconfortant.

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Chapitres

Notes on Manuscripts and Editions of This Book6 min Note as to the Lady Julian, Anchoress at St Julian's, and the Lady Julian Lampet, Anchoress at Carrow3 min Introduction (Part I): The Lady Julian18 min Introduction (Part II): The Manner of the Book27 min Introduction (Part III): The Theme of the Book31 min Chapter 1: A Revelation of Love--in Sixteen Shewings3 min Chapter 2: A simple creature unlettered.--Which creature afore desired three gifts of God2 min Chapter 3: I desired to suffer with Him3 min Chapter 4: I saw ... as it were in the time of His Passion.... And in the same Shewing suddenly the Trinity filled my heart with utmost joy2 min Chapter 5: God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself;--only in Thee I have all3 min Chapter 6: The Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need4 min Chapter 7: The Shewing is not other than of faith, nor less nor more4 min Chapter 8: In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to my fellow-Christians that they might see and know the same that I saw3 min Chapter 9: If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought2 min Chapter 10: God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted6 min Chapter 11: All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all." "Sin is no deed3 min Chapter 12: The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it it most plenteous2 min Chapter 13: The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ3 min Chapter 14: The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time2 min Chapter 15: It is not God's will that we follow the feeling of pains in sorrow and mourning for them2 min Chapter 16: A Part of His Passion2 min Chapter 17: How might any pain be more to me than to see Him that is all my life, and all my bliss, and all my joy suffer?4 min Chapter 18: When He was in pain, we were in pain2 min Chapter 19: Thus was I learned to choose Jesus for my Heaven, whom I saw only in pain at that time3 min Chapter 20: For every man's sin that shall be saved He suffered, and every man's sorrow and desolation He saw, and sorrowed for Kinship and Love2 min Chapter 21: We be now with Him in His Pains and His Passion, dying.2 min Chapter 22: The Love that made Him to suffer passeth so far all His Pains as Heaven is above Earth4 min Chapter 23: The Glad Giver" "All the Trinity wrought in the Passion of Jesus Christ3 min Chapter 24: Our Lord looked unto His [wounded] Side, and beheld, rejoicing.... _Lo! how I loved thee_2 min Chapter 25: I wot well that thou wouldst see my blessed Mother...." "Wilt thou see in her how thou art loved?3 min Chapter 26: It is I, it is I1 min Chapter 27: Often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not hindered: for then, methought, all should have been well."...3 min Chapter 28: Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians, with charity, it is Christ in him2 min Chapter 29: How could all be well, for the great harm that is come by sin to the creature?1 min Chapter 30: Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our salvation;--and the part that is hid and shut up from us: all beside our salvation2 min Chapter 31: The Spiritual Thirst (which was in Him from without beginning) is desire in Him as long as we be in need, drawing us up to His Bliss3 min Chapter 32: There be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible that ever it should come to good...4 min Chapter 33: It is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed...2 min Chapter 34: All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us2 min Chapter 35: I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved.... It is more worship to God to behold Him in _all_ than in any special thing3 min Chapter 36: My sin shall not hinder His Goodness working....4 min Chapter 37: In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall."--"For failing of Love on our part, therefore is all...2 min Chapter 38: In Heaven "the token of sin is turned to worship."--_Examples thereof_2 min Chapter 39: Sin is the sharpest scourge.... By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing towards God we are made worthy3 min Chapter 40: True love teacheth us that we should hate sin only for love." "To me was shewed no harder hell than sin." "God willeth that we endlessly hate the...3 min Chapter 41: _I am the Ground of thy beseeching._" "Also to prayer belongeth thanking4 min Chapter 42: Prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with accordant longing and sure trust4 min Chapter 43: Prayer uniteth the soul to God4 min Chapter 44: God is endless, sovereign Truth,--Wisdom,--Love, not-made; and man's Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made1 min Chapter 45: All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are comprehended in these two judgments3 min Chapter 46: It is needful to see and to know that we are sinners: wherefore we deserve pain and wrath." "He is God: Good, Life, Truth, Love, Peace: His...3 min Chapter 47: We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and then find we no feeling of right,--nought but contrariness that is in...3 min Chapter 48: I beheld the property of Mercy, and I beheld the property of Grace: which have two manners of working in one love3 min Chapter 49: Where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath no place." "Immediately is the soul made at one with God when it is truly set at peace in...3 min Chapter 50: The blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us." "In the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be dead3 min Chapter 51: He is the Head, and we be His members." "Therefore our Father nor may nor will more blame assign to us than to His own Son, precious and worthy Christ23 min Chapter 52: We have now matter of mourning: for our sin is cause of Christ's pains; and we have, lastingly, matter of joy: for endless love made Him to suffer6 min Chapter 53: In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall." "Ere that He made us He loved us, and when we were...4 min Chapter 54: Faith is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God is in us: Whom we see not2 min Chapter 55: Christ is our Way"--"Mankind shall be restored from double death4 min Chapter 56: God is nearer to us than our own soul" "We can never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul4 min Chapter 57: In Christ our two natures are united12 min Chapter 58: All our life is in three: 'Nature, Mercy, Grace.' The high Might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother,...4 min Chapter 59: Jesus Christ that doeth Good against evil is our Very Mother: we have our Being of Him where the Ground of Motherhood beginneth,--with all the...3 min Chapter 60: The Kind, loving, Mother4 min Chapter 61: By the assay of this falling we shall have an high marvellous knowing of Love in God, without end.5 min Chapter 62: God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature: and all natures that He hath made to flow out of Him to work His will shall be restored and brought...2 min Chapter 63: As verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unkind"--a disease or monstrous thing against nature. "He shall heal us full fair.3 min Chapter 64: _Thou shalt come up above._" "A very fair creature, a little Child--nimble and lively, whiter than lily4 min Chapter 65: The Charity of God maketh in us such a unity that, when it is truly seen, no man can part himself from other3 min Chapter 66: All was closed, and I saw no more." "For the folly of feeling a little bodily pain I unwisely lost for the time the comfort of all this blessed...4 min Chapter 67: The place that Jesus taketh in our soul He shall never remove from, without end:--for in us His homliest home and His endless dwelling." "Our soul...2 min Chapter 68: He said not: _Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted_; but He said: _Thou shalt not be overcome_2 min Chapter 69: I was delivered from the Enemy by the virtue of Christ's Passion2 min Chapter 70: Above the Faith is no goodness kept in this life, as to my sight, and beneath the Faith is no help of soul; but _in_ the Faith, _there_ willeth...3 min Chapter 71: Three manners of looking seen in our Lord's Countenance2 min Chapter 72: As long as we be meddling with any part of sin we shall never see clearly the Blissful Countenance of our Lord4 min Chapter 73: Two manners of sickness that we have: impatience, or sloth;--despair, or mistrustful dread3 min Chapter 74: There is no dread that fully pleaseth God in us but reverent dread4 min Chapter 75: We shall see verily the cause of all things that He hath done; and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that He hath permitted3 min Chapter 76: The soul that beholdeth the fair nature of our Lord Jesus, it hateth no hell but sin3 min Chapter 77: Accuse not thyself overmuch, deeming that thy tribulation and thy woe is all thy fault." "All thy living is penance profitable." "In the remedy He...4 min Chapter 78: Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation by the special gift of our Lord, yet it is needful to us to have knowledge and sight of our sin...3 min Chapter 79: I was taught that I should see mine own sin, and not other men's sin except it may be for comfort and help of my fellow-Christians" (lxxvi.)3 min Chapter 80: Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all." "Love suffereth never to be without Pity3 min Chapter 81: God seeth all our living a penance: for nature-longing of our love is to Him a lasting penance in us." "His love maketh Him to long2 min Chapter 82: In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love3 min Chapter 83: Life, Love, and Light1 min Chapter 84: Charity1 min Chapter 85: Lord, blessed mayest Thou be, for it is thus: it is well1 min Chapter 86: Love was our Lord's Meaning2 min Postscript by a Scribe2 min